This Weekend's Events - Dec 15-16

Every Thursday I will endeavor to list as many family-friendly happenings in the area for the coming weekend. Please come back and post comments if you attend any of these events.

Maryland

• Winter Lights - Seneca Creek State Park, Gaithersburg, http://www.gaithersburgmd.gov/winterlights/12_main.html
• 35th Annual Festival of Lights - Kensington, http://dctemplelights.lds.org/
• Winter Wonderland - Harbor East, Baltimore http://www.harboreast.com/events/window-wonderland-a-holiday-arts-exhibit-at-harbor-east/
• The Garden of Lights - Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, http://www.montgomeryparks.org/brookside/garden_lights.shtm
• Ice! at Gaylord National - National Harbor, Oxon Hill, http://nationalharbor.com/event/ice-at-gaylord-national/
• The Polar Express 4D Experience - National Aquarium Baltimore, http://www.aqua.org/visit/baltimore/calendar/showtime-4d-polar-express
• Holiday Festival of Trains and Toys - B&O Railroad Museum, Baltimore  http://www.borail.org/HFOT.aspx
• Fell's Point Old Tyme Christmas - Baltimore, http://www.fellspointmainstreet.org/2012_oldetymechristmas.html
• Disney Live! Mickey's Music Festival - Baltimore, http://www.lyricoperahouse.com/
• Holly Trolleyfest - National Capital Trolley Museum, Colesville, http://dctrolley.org/events.php
• Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella - Olney Theatre Center, http://olneytheatre.org/shows-a-events/cinderella
• Seussical - Imagination Stage, http://imaginationstage.org/shows-a-tickets/shows-playing-now
• The Nutcracker - The Puppet Co Playhouse, Glen Echo Park, 11:30am & 1pm
• Winter's Eve - Dec 15, 6-9pm, Glen Echo Park, http://www.glenechopark.org/
• It's a Wonderful Life - Dec 15, 8pm, Black Rock Center for the Arts, http://www.blackrockcenter.org/show/show_items/view/167
• Ceremony of Carols by National Philharmonic - Dec 16, 3pm, Black Rock Center for the Arts, http://www.blackrockcenter.org/show/show_items/view/168
• Family Christmas Sing-a-Long - Dec 16pm, 4pm, Strathmore,  http://www.strathmore.org/eventstickets/calendar/view.asp?id=8793
• Rockville Concert Band's Holiday Concert - Dec 16, 3pm, F.Scott Fitzgerald Theatre, http://www.rockvillemd.gov/theatre/calendar.html?DISPLAYMODE=DisplayEvent&DETAILEVENT=C9DD3F1B68A04ECEBA55E90630BFDE24
• Moscow Ballet's Great Russian Nutcracker - Dec 16, 3pm, 7:30pm, Strathmore, http://www.strathmore.org/eventstickets/calendar/view.asp?id=8472
• Historic Annapolis Gingerbread House Contest - http://www.visitannapolis.org/event-calendar/details/index.aspx?eid=2486
• Nutcracker on Ice - Dec 15, 12pm, Columbia Ice Rink, http://www.columbiafsc.com/

Virginia

• Christmas at Mount Vernon - http://www.mountvernon.org/calendar/view/2011-11-25/4546
• Meadowlark's Winter Walk of Lights - Meadowlark Botanical Gardens, Vienna, http://www.nvrpa.org/park/winter_walk_lights
• Civil War Christmas at Sully - Dec 15, http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/sully/
• The Christmas Attic's Holiday Advent Calendar Art Celebration - http://www.christmasattic.com/images/Events/Press%20Release.pdf
• Christmas Movie Festival - Dec 16, 11-9pm, http://www.arlingtondrafthouse.com/default.aspx?page=christmas

Washington DC

• The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg - Kennedy Center, http://www.kennedy-center.org/events/?event=KNTBA
• ZooLights, National Zoo - http://nationalzoo.si.edu/ActivitiesAndEvents/Celebrations/zoolights/
• The Joy of Christmas Concert - The National Cathedral, 4pm, http://www.nationalcathedral.org/events/CCSJoy2012.shtml#.UMo4O2-X-So